Object details

Accession number

SGc8

Primary Creator

Italian, Venice

Full title

Byzantine Well Head

Creation Date

800-825

Provenance

Said to have come from the collection of the Pegroni family, Mira.

Collection of the art dealer Moisé Rietti, Palazzo Giustiniani, Venice by 1889.

Collection of Rietti's successor, the marble dealer and mason Moisé dalla Torre, Venice, by the 1890s.

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Moisè dalla Torre, Venice for 750 lire on 24 August 1899.

Dimensions

60 x 85 cm (23 5/8 x 33 7/16 in.)

Display Media

Grey Aurisina (?) limesone

Web Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

Permanent Gallery Location

Outside

Bibliography

Ferdinando Ongania. Raccolta delle vere da pozzo (marmi puteali) in Venezia (Venice,1889), p. 4, pl. 31. (as 9th century)
Gino Voltolina et al. Le antiche vere da pozzo veneziane (Venice, 1981), p. 28, fig. 18. (as said to be 9th century; as whereabouts unknown)
Gerd-H. Zuchold. "An Early Venetian Well-Head in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Fenway Court (1988), pp. 22-31, figs. 1-3. (as Venetian, 1st quarter of the 9th century)
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 33, fig. 30. (as Italian)

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